Plus, OITNB does a thing Oz rarely did, which is make us laugh. The issues many prison reformers are passionate about have gained new traction thanks to Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, released in January Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice, released in March the 2013 HBO Documentary Gideon’s Army and the October 2012 documentary The House I Live In.Īnd now we have Orange is The New Black, the first American television program since Oz to so poignantly dramatize, eroticize and criticize the system. It’s historically been difficult to generate activist attention around criminal justice reform, but increasing media attention could add more hearts/minds/bodies to the thousands who’ve been battling these issues tirelessly for years, like The Sentencing Project, The Women’s Prison Association, Families Against Mandatory Minimums and The ACLU. is home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prison inmates and women are this country’s fastest-growing prison population. But the timing is particularly perfect politically, because now more than ever the shameful, counterproductive, racially biased and monumentally expensive criminal justice system deserves national interrogation, and this show could potentially help move that conversation forward. Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black debuted at a perfect time for numerous reasons - like that we were starving, really, for a racially diverse female-driven show unafraid to tackle queer and transgender narratives.
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